Keywords of IRCStep
Japanese Edition
Keywords
The format of URI character string which follows the suggestion of W3C is a type of "irc://Address of the server/channel name" or " or "irc ://Address of the server:Port number/channel name". The nickname is enter instead of the channel name for private massage.
This format has been adopted in the inside format of IRCStep in order to express the talking object in IRC in the unambiguity.
There is seldom a case in which the user requires taking the input of this type as an indispensable thing. Exceptionally to use "Open URI service" to start IRCStep.
Generally, the multiple mutually connects the server of IRC, and information to be called the IRC space is shared. In IRCStep, it handles this IRC space as a unit of "Network", and Network window is correspondent in the one-to-one.
In the default setting of IRCStep, Network of IRC called "IRCNet" has been set. As similar Network of IRC, "undernet", "EFNet", etc. are known. Too there are otherwise many "Network of IRC" this. There is some Network of IRC in which it is completed only in the single server in great numbers.
Main speech object in IRC are channel and individual. In IRCStep, each of these speech objects is handled as a unit of "Target".
In IRCStep, there is a small icon which visualizes Target, and the channel expresses in the monolith
, the individual expressed in the human silhouette
. It is possible that this small icon carries out the delivery by doing Drag&Drop between the region where other similar and small icon is being put. And, by doing the double click, the opinion. ChatWindow for expressing opinion to the Target opens.
"NARUTO" is the food of Japan. It is steamed-wounded-extended-fish meat paste. The spiral pattern appears in the cross section. "Naruto Channel" which becomes the derivation of this name is known in the Japan prominence vortex tide. In Japan, the channel operator authority may be called "NARUTO" in order to remind of the spiral pattern of this food by AtMark which shows the channel operator authority.
In IRCStep, with this habit, by imitating the icon which shows the channel operator authority as NARUTO of the food, it is displayed. 
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